We can see from international websites and news reports that the Middle East is extremely hot. The United States, the most trouble-making country in the world, can be found behind wherever there is a dispute. Recently, the United States uncharacteristically sent three aircraft carriers to China's periphery. What is the reason for this extremely unusual initiative not to fight the Houthi in Yemen? Is the United States aware of something?
1. What is the Houthi armed group?
Yemen's Houthi armed group takes its name from its earliest leader, Hussein Houthi. This group began as an organization about the faith of young people, and has since evolved into an armed group. The Houthis have long been active in northern Yemen. In 2010, a ceasefire agreement was signed with the Yemeni government, ending a six-year armed conflict with government forces.
In recent years, the Houthis have been in constant friction with the United States, Saudi Arabia and other countries. The U.S. government has even designated the Houthis as "global terrorists" and imposed relevant sanctions. Saudi Arabia has also led a multinational coalition against the Houthis, which is aimed at helping the Yemeni government regain lost territory.
Second, the United States is making a small calculation
It stands to reason that the war in the Middle East is so fierce that the United States should send additional aircraft carriers to the Red Sea and Mediterranean regions of the Middle East, because their ally Israel is mired in the Gaza war. Nearby Lebanese Allah and Iran are also sharpening their knives, and US military bases are also under siege by multinational forces. Although the United States has repeatedly sent planes to bombard the Houthis, American merchant ships have still been hit, which has caused the image of the United States to be invincible in the Middle East to collapse.
Over the past four months, U.S. military bases have been attacked more than 150 times without killing a single U.S. soldier. Obviously, this will not have any deterrent effect on the United States. In the Middle East, the only one who dares to argue with the US military is the Houthis, although the Houthis have launched a large number of anti-ship missiles in an attempt to blockade the Red Sea, but the thunder is heavy and the rain is small.
The reason why the United States withdrew its aircraft carriers and sent them to the vicinity of China is because they have a relatively good grasp of the development of the war, and they believe that they can deal with these armed groups with only one aircraft carrier.
Third, the disturbing international situation
There is an old Chinese saying that "if you are warlike, you will die". The United States frequently wags wars abroad, which consumes a large amount of its military strength and weapons, and at present the United States has very few aircraft carriers that can be mobilized.
However, judging from the military history of the United States, there are really not many cases of gathering three supercarriers at one time, and such a military deployment of the US military has also caused everyone to have great questions and discussions, because they have concentrated their warships in China's periphery, which inevitably makes people speculate whether the United States is putting pressure on China.
On the southeast coast of China, the situation in this direction has stabilized since Penosi's visit, but if something big happens, even the United States will not be able to mobilize even three aircraft carriers. In addition to the southeast, there is another place with the greatest possibility, and that is the Korean Peninsula, which has shown great willpower and survivability since Kim Jong-un came to power.
In addition to actively conducting test launches of intercontinental missiles, the DPRK has also frequently launched various types of missiles. To make matters worse, the two Koreas on the Korean Peninsula have now broken up their previous ceasefire agreement, and the artillery exchange has escalated sharply again. North Korea has even openly declared that it regards South Korea as a hostile country and has significantly increased its forces in the direction of the ceasefire line.
Epilogue:
It is known that South Korea is a vassal of the United States. Whatever the American dad tells him to do, he has to do something, given the current tensions. It is against this background that the United States is expected to use aircraft carriers directly. If the United States during Trump's term of office is doing everything possible to suppress China, then the United States under Biden is one thing on the surface and another behind the scenes.
But they have only one ultimate goal, which is to limit China's development. Because we are adjacent to the peninsula, and the DPRK also has a military mutual assistance treaty with us, the actions of the US military in the Asia-Pacific region may be directed at the mainland, and it can also be seen that the United States is very afraid of China surpassing them, and the United States attaches more importance to the Asia-Pacific strategy than to the competition between countries in the Middle East.